Sentence examples for defence arms from inspiring English sources

The comments came as a State Department spokesman said on Tuesday that the administration of President Barack Obama had on Tuesday notified Congress of "a $1.83 billion defence arms sales package to Taiwan".

He revealed that GE has some rough edges: its chemical plants have polluted, its defence arms have been involved in Pentagon scandals, it burns out some managers, it made a mess of running Kidder Peabody, an investment bank.

It speaks of a lack of progress on missile defence, arms control, trade and commercial relations, global security issues, human rights and civil society … the blockage extends right across the whole spectrum of the relationship defined by the so-called reset.

The European Union, through the Western European Union, its embryonic defence arm, has offered to help the police.

A shrivelled Nato, an ineffective EU defence arm and an aggressive Moscow would be the worst possible outcome.

That was the day the French industry minister visited Elancourt, west of Paris, where the defence arm of European Aeronautic Defence & Space (EADS) conducts research on cyber-security.

America regarded the European Union's attempt to develop its own security and defence arm as wasteful, if not an attempt to split NATO.

The defence arm will feel the effects of "well publicised cuts" in the US and the end of big orders in India and the Middle East, Rishton said.

Lord Simpson promptly moved GEC out of its dingy rooms by Hyde Park Corner to a swanky office off Bond Street, flogged its defence arm to British Aerospace, and blew the proceeds on expensive telecoms-equipment-makers in America.

It views NATO as the natural defence arm not only of Europe but of everything affecting the West, and therefore wants it to be the main instrument for dealing with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

These were already given a much-needed fillip in February, when the French state agreed to a share-swap between Crédit Lyonnais and the defence arm of Thomson, a state-owned electronics firm.